I wonder what they would actually use the money for at this point. Middleware licenses? Outsourced art? Beta testers?
I was under the impression that this was a very small team doing everything.
I kind of disagree with that. Games using KS for finishing are way more reliable than pitches that are just some concept art and a dream. Plenty of projects have gone to KS at >50% and done quite well. Gianna Sisters, Freedom Planet, FTL, etc.
I also don't think this project was badly mismanaged. They lost their publisher, and the revenue stream they were expecting from their first game, so they were operating on razor thin margins.
They were clearly behind target on assets and one developer said he though they"d have had to cut the game's scope down. But that sort of thing is so common these days it's unfair to really characterize it as mismanagement.
I wonder what they would actually use the money for at this point. Middleware licenses? Outsourced art? Beta testers?
I was under the impression that this was a very small team doing everything.
That makes a lot more sense. I guess that's considered a small team by modern AAA standards. Keeping that many people on payroll for another year or more would take millions.
So the game is definitely kaput? No chance someone else could eventually swoop in and take over, ala Duke Nukem Forever (bad example, I know)?
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So you're saying there's hope, CricStands?
"In development" is probably a stretch, but it does seem like Tencent is going to rescue the project in some way. I don't think they've staffed back up yet though.
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